Virginia has approached the environmental review process for landfills, along with all other permits, by dividing up impactful decisions into categories such as "air," "water," and "waste." This implies that somehow a landfill permit can be assessed as if it has no impact on air and water, or that the emissions from a gas plant don't compound with emissions from a landfill right up the street (for an example, Chickahominy Power being permitted less than two miles from the WM landfill facility in Charles City).  Individual permits are approved (almost always) without investigating whether they have broader implications--decision making at the DEQ is outrageously siloed, as if we could make decisions about the impacts of a single permit review (for example, the Ingenco facility in Charles City applying for a leachate concentrator) without looking at the broader implications of that particular permit, or measuring the compounding impacts of a series of permit decisions. Further, it is clear that the DEQ spends significant amounts of time and energy addressing concerns and needs of applicants, when the environmentally just thing to do would be to ensure that the needs and concerns of community members receive equal attention. In order to meet the expectation of the Environmental Justice Act, it is essential that the DEQ begin to approach permit decisions in a more comprehensive manner, and consult with communities as equal partners in decision making as they do industry.